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PROMINENT PEOPLE.

SENATOR AND MRS. FRYE, Of Maine, are
to go to Europe in March.
A.. ID. FASSETr, the new Labor Commits
sioner Of Ohio, is a newspaper man, and once
ran labor organ.
FRED DOUGLASS and Theodore Tilton
went about Paris great deal together and
attracted much attention.
GENERAL THOMAS J. BRADY, OF star route
notoriety, is reported to be almost entirely
broken down by adversity.
DIR. PETERS, an eminent Paris physician
rcpudiates and denouuces NJ. Pasteurs ia
NOUS treatment of hvdrophobia.
FERDINAND WARD, who is engaged III
paSting tobacco labels at Sing Sing is called
hy the warden "kicker and schemer'
Mr.. THOMAS A. EDISON, the inventor,
who has been suffering from pleuriSy at his
New Jersey home, has gone to Plaintield.
LUCY STONE, the lecturer on Womans 5
Rights, predicts that woman will be Presi-
dent Of the United States in the year 2OOo.
SCULPTOR BARTHoLDI has written letter
to Senator Evarts, in which he says that the
Statue of Liberty will last as long as any
Egyptian monument.
THE President and Mrs Cleveland have re.
ceived some pressing invitations to visit the
Pacific coast next summer. Mrs. Cleveland
is said to favor the trip.
A. OAKEY HALL, Mayor of New York
during the Tweed ring regime, has become
naturalized English sub; ;ect He says he
never expects to see America again.
WILLIAM L. ScoTT, the Congressman
from Erie, Pa, is the largest individual coal
worker in the world He employs lO,C0J
men in mining and shipping.
Miss CATHARINE LoRILLARD WOLFE. of
New York, has given to charitable objects
Sl 100000, and has been known to give in
one years time more than S25O,0OO.
IT is said that the Marquis of Queensberry
offered to give $4,000 toward the Stanley
relief expedition, but it was refused by STAN
ley because he preferred to pick his own
company.
JOHN D. LANKERMAS, of Philadelphia, has
given 81, COO, ,O0O for the Institution of Ger
man hospital in that city, in which dca on
esses of the Lutheran Church will be en-
ployei as nurses.
MUNKAcsY, the painter, who recently re-
turned to Paris, is going to give dinner to
Mr. NcLane, the American Minister, in rec.
ognition of the attentions which he received
while visiting this country.
Miss ADA LEIGH, ths English philanthro-
pist, who few years ago started home for
Young men, with a restaurant and reading
room attached, is now in New York, bent on
performing some work of similar nature
there.
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RELIGIOUS READING.
Above it All.

Above it All.
see the crowds Of earth 60 by,
I hear the worlds loud trumpet call;
Though through its midst my path should
Yet must live above it all.
The sorrows Of the daily life,
The shadows DER my path which fall
Too oft obscure the glory's light
Until rise above them all.
Until upon the mountain height
Istand, my God, with Thee alone,
Bathed in the fullest clearest light
The glory which surrounds the throna
Here hushed are all the sounds of earth,
The laugh of pleasure, moan Of pain;
The vain, deluding shouts Of mirth
Here fall upon my ear in vain.
Calm in Thy secret presence, Lord,
rest this weary soul Of mine,
Feed on the fulness of Thy Word,
And die to all the things Of time.
Learning that Word so wondrous deep,
To live in joy and grief the same;
Weeping as though we did not weep,
Gaining as though we did not gain,
Obi take my feyered hands in Thine,
And keep me, Master, nearer Thee.
Walking above tho things Of time
In closest fellowship with Thee.
With Thee, above the clouds and gloom
That shade and dim this lower life;
Walking with Thee-with Thee alone
Above the storm, above the strife.
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Tho HIGHER Art.

Socrates, like his father, in early life
was a sculptor. At the age of thirty,
however, we are told, he threw down
his tools. and resolved henceforth, in
stead of turning marble into the simii-
tude of men, to engage IN the more heav-
enly calling of turning men into the ST.
Multitude of God.
And who can fail to see that in thus
abandoning his mallet and pick for the
teachers chair this ancient worthy was,
indeed, becoming an artist in hardly
less real, strictly speaking, in far high
er sense than before3 The essential
difference between his former and his
present vocation is that, whereas he was
then dealing with insatiate materials, he
is now dealing with living men. Form
erly his aim was to fashion into some
form of beauty the perishable stone.
Now, passing from perishable matter to
the imperishable spirit, his passion is to
fashion into some form of truth or duty
the immortal mind. Judged by what
ever standard, it must be admitted that
the highest art is that which consisteth,
not so much in giving coloring, however
brilliant, or form, however graceful or
exquisite, to any perishable materials, as
in quickening dead souls, in adorning
human character, in shaping human be-
ings after tie pattern or into the like
ness of Jesus Christ. And what, verify
can we'll be nober than this art which
thus has for its object the building, not
of cathedrals, but of manhood; the res :
toration, not of few fallen temples, or
classic marbles, or frescoes, but the de-
faced and fallen architecture of the hu-
man soul; the twining yet again OF
something beautiful to see, and grateful
to the soul around the crumbling altars
and broken arches of the desolate temple
of the human heart.
Itmay be noble, as the poet sings,
ITO send the Doric columnto the skies;
Pile towers on towers, and build ap mausols-
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To human vanity
To make the marble speak, the canvas glow,
The heart leap into eloquence, or trip
To the light numbers Of the poets reed"
This may be noble, in its way and
grand: but is it not nobler far, is it not
grander, to incite men to live for high
action, aims and purposes, COMFORTING
with and dignifed by truth; to awaken
hope where there was no hope; to pour
blissful feelings into hearts burdened
with woes-to inspire all day long in re-
deemed hearts and households such
spontaneous, songs of joy as no statue OF
Memnon ever uttered. or prima donna
ever sung; and to send dreams OF para
disc, by night, to visit the once thorny
pillow of wife and children in compari-
son with which the glories or Milton
and Dante utterly pale and diea Is this
not nobler, indeed, and infinitely more
satisfying, than to shape the semblance
of divinest contour or feature on the
cold, dead marble, or to sing albeit in
undying numbers, the longest 1liad ever
dreamed of
What so imperishable truly as the
monument of this higher art7 The colors
of Murillo, it needs hardly be said, shall
fade. The marbles of Powers, Storey,
Pcrcda and Bazzanti shall crumblc; af-
ter the lapse of few generations, or
centuries at most, the places that know
them will know, them no more. Bat the
soul of that boy, which some humble
teacher has rescued from sin and polished
for the kingdom of Go |, will be gem
fresh and fadclcss forever in the crown
OF the King of kings.
Parents, sunday-school teachers, minis
tiers, are ye artists scu'ptors, all! Into
YOUR hand hath been committed material
more prec,ous by far than all the marbles
of Carrara or Pentilicus. Yours is the
rare privilege of treating on the imperish-
able cope of memory forms of beauty
that shall outlast by etcrna! ages all the
frescos of Raphael or Titan. Be
faithful to your high trust. Grow not
weary in well-doihg. The day is at
hand when, according to your own
patience, fidelity and faith, galleries of
SCULPTURE shall be revealed not only, in
deed, for the admiration of men, but
withal of the angels and God.-[N. Y.
Observer.
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Grant Points Toward the Enemy.

The late Gen. Hillycr, who was on
Gen. Grants staff, said to me that on one
occasion he had bottle upon his table,
and was railing against persons who hsd
not met his expectations of fame: "oh,
that mine enemy would write book"
At this Gen. Grant pointed to the bot
tie, and said: "Hillyer, your enemy
doesn't write books. ~ Cincinnati En-
quirsr.
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"The Brewers, Domination"


It is quite time to arrest and destroy
the brewers domination everywhere.
They are at present the special propa-
gandists of the injurious social drinking
usages. They maintain a literary
bureau" to disseminate publications ad-
vocating moderate drinking, to ply legis-
lators with false and misleading state.
meuts, to herald in the public press the
"failure of prohibition" etc. They
teach insubordination to law wherever
prohibition or any form of really strin-
gent anti-liquor legislation is enacted
They combine to defend illegal liquor
sellers ir courts, and do all in their
power to thwart and defy restrictive law.
The Haddock murder in Iowa is a strik-
ing illustration of this spirit of lawless-
ness and violence against legal restraints.
A Sioux City brewer is about to be tried
for the murder, and with him several
saloon-keepers and hangers-on as fellow
conspirators against the life OF this he
roic, martyred minister. Again, in
Chicago, it was in the saloons OF that
city that the condemned anarchists
matured and prepared for the execution
of their murderous plots. The beer
saloon is the nursery of vice as we'll as
crime. Its atmosphere is foul with I'M
pure Jest and obscenity. The beer-gar-
den is the stepping stone to ruin on the
part of many an unsuspecting young girl,
who is enticed therein to ''harmless"
beer drinking, and thence to evil, who
could not have been induced at first on
any account to enter the whisky-shop.
The brewers are restive under even Sun
day closing, and are doing all in their
power to break down all legal barriers
against Sunday beer-selling. Theirs Is
an evil. dangerous oligarchy in many as
poets. We bear no ill.will toward brew
ers IS individuals, but their business as
brewers is at war with the public well
fare, and should, and we believe ulti-
mately will, be abolished.-Fatio"a!
TEMPERANCE Adoocate.
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FATHER" said Rollo, ito whom was
Byron writing when he said, Fare
thee we'll, and if forever, still forever
fare thee well?" "Oh," said Rollo's
father, who is away up in ancient his
tory, @he was writing an ode to PATHS
farewell tour; Still, forever fare thee
WE'LL" "And who was Byron?" asked
Rollo. "He was a prophet" said Rol-
los Uncle George.-Burdette.
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MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.

CANDIDUs receives $1,000 a week from the
National Opera Company.
GRoBE, blind organist, is creating sem
sation in Germany. His playing is said to
be wonderful
THERE are 20, 600 pianos annually made in
France, a., 900 in Ameri a, 5000 in Eug-
land, and 49, % in Germany.
ALEXANDER DUMAS, the younger, author
of many new plays, is now sixty-three years
old. His hair is silvery white.
MANAGER DAILY lad to one firm over
5000 for d. esSeS in IT g Tanning of the
Shrew," now running in New York.
NINE. PATTI believes that she has discov-
cred jewel in her niece Carlina. and pre-
diets that she will become great singer in
time
MISS MAUD BANKS. daughter Of General
n. p, IS now regularly on the stage She has
been playing Parthenia in "Ingomar" this
week i'll the small towns of Pennsylvania
Two attaches of tho Chinese Legation are
skilled performers ON strange and wonderful
musical instruments used in the Flowery
Kingdom. The result is that they are il
great demand at social receptions.
SOME one asked Mime. Patti in San Fran
cisco recently ii it was really her farewell
visit to the Pacific coast. That is what the
advertisements say" she replied. land that
is what say now. But who can tell.'
Mus. JAMES Brown Potter, the New
York lady prominently before the public as
all amateur a2treSs and eocutionSt is i'll
Paris studying for the stage, which she has
determined upon adopting US profession.
HENRY ARTHUR JONES is now tho head
of successful English dramatsts. Hc has two
good plays running in London theatres AMI
IS hard Mt work on another. lic is plain,
quiet little gentleman, modest IN his uianner
and simple in his tastes.
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A SYNDICATE Of colored men from New
England have offered Virginia farmer 500
an acre for his land, which contains mum.
Der of sulphur and chaly ybeate springs. and
purpose to establish Saratoga for the col
ored people of the world.
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AcoNrEsr in making and turning 100 horse
shoes, time and workmanship both to be ta-
ken iuto account, came OH the other evening
in the Detroit Opera House, before large
audience, between Martin J. Dunn, OF De-
troit, and John Campbell, OF Buffalo. Inc
Detroit man carried OIL the prize, making
his 100 shoes in LII, to his opponents niDe-
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A PIAYoFoRTE with case made entirely OF
paper is a recent German production. AS it
is described, the color is creamy white;
the tone is reported to be characterized oy
sweetness rather than loudness, the sound
emitted-unlike the short broken note Of the
ordinary piano-being soft, full and slightly
continuous somewhat resembling that OF the
organ.
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SylfdulS W. ~. - "
1.-THE merchandise of souls of men,
Rev. xviii; u. %.
O, monster i'll, which fills the land,
And claims its myriads slain,
4 little band Of women brave,
Mid throes Of sorest pain
This thought have borne; thy power to sap,
Thy Hydra head to kill
Kneeling, with outstretched hands they crys
"Help us, o God! we will
Unseat this tyrant of our homes.
Our brothers, sires, and sons
No more shall drift to ruin dire,
The hour Of rescue comes"
Soon other women hear the call,
Town answers town afar,
Till, DER the land, North, East and West,
The tocsin sounds Of war.
And now from DER the water wide,
Stretch foreign lands with aid
We, too, o sisters, join your band,
We. mother, wife and maid,
Have wept our dearest, crushed beneath
This Juggernaut Of rum" ....
Fall into rank, ye countless hosts,
With help, with hope, ye come.
Has God not seen9 Has He not heardl
AAo ASesAo eLo - guy hooo1
BE leads to victory alway,
In Him alone we boast
We're marching on from day to day,
"a million mothers"-strong.
Ten million precious sons to save
From ruin and from wrong.
God speed the day, when those who now
So coldly lock oskance,
Crying: "Be moderate, we pray"
Shall also draw THAR lance,
Fighting with us against the Prince
Who rules this world, we're told,
Rules it by rum, and lust Of power,
And greediness for gold.
o, thrice accursed traffic dire,
Trading in ''souls of men,
God sees. He hears the victims cry.
He will avenge! o, when!
Zen now we hear the muttering doom,
Red lightning fills the sky.
It's fitful flashes show the pit ....
Wherein these victims lie.
Poor wailing babes, whose fathers MAIN,
Sad wives, whose hearts are moved
With anguish, mothers smitten, crushed,
By the dear sons they loved.
Souls lost for aye! See, too, the band
OF those who wrought this woe,
For lust Of gold. A band accursed,
OF God and man the foe.
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Drunkards and Paupcrs.

Recently published official statistics
show that one out of every thirty of the
population of Great Britain is an avowed
pauper, in receipt of parish relief. There
are annually 1So, 900 apprchensions in the
United Kingdom for drunkenness. There
are, moreover, 500, 900 drunkards, $780,
600 bar.men and bar-maids, and $50, 900
saloon keepers and beer-sellers. The an
nual drink bill amounts to $3.50, 900, 600.
England, however, seeks to atone Tor
this by spending $1,000, 900 per annum
in missions to the heather, as against
$500, 900 similarly employed by Ger
many, $50, by France, or $l,OOO,OOo
for the whole of Europe. This would
seem 10 be case where missionary work
should begin at home.
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The Senate of the United States has
decided that step-mothers are as good as
own mothers, and in view of this fact the
mothers-in-law may take heart and look
forward to time when justice will be
done them. The case before the Sem
ate was that of Mrs. Barbara Fuchs, of
Fountain City, Wis, whom the House
has passed a bill to pension, on the
ground that she was the dependent
mother of John Fuchs, private in
Company H, Sixth Wisconsin Volun-
teers, who was killed in the assault on
Petersburg. Mrs. Fuchs application
for O pension had been rejected at the
Pension Office on the ground that she
was only step-mother, and so, as the
law stands, not entitled to a pension.
The evidence showed that the soldier
was only three years old when his faith
er married the present Mrs. Fuchs,
that he had contributed out OF his
bounty and pay to the support OF his
parents, that they were poor people
who needed such assistance, and that
the father is now dead. Senator Cock
rell objected to the bill on the ground
that q case of dependence had not
been made out. but nearly all the
Senators, regardless of party, decided
that Mrs. Fuchs should have pension.
SARAH BERNHARDT was playing trag.
edy in Santiago, Chill, short time
ago, when a real tragedy startled the
people. Indeed, for while the French
actress was not much talked about.
Don Esteban de Meo, a millionaire,
quarreled with his nephew, Don Emilio
de Meo, a young physician, about Den
Esteban's daughter. The young WON
ans honor was compromised. Don
Estaban stabbed his nephew thrice with
o dagger. As the murdered man fell
his assassin knelt upon him, his knee
Oh his stomach, and kept stabbing
away, keeping count all the time OF
the number of thrusts, which were
found afterward to amount to twenty
FIVE. He then coolly washed his blood
stained hands. When m officer ran up
he exclaimed: II have stabbed him
twenty-five times! I don't care if I
have to die, for I have killed tiger
and freed humanity from criminal"
ais THERE letter here in q sealed
envelope for my wife?" he asked the
! Postmaster, while the green fire from
his eyes made the office c sek.l1 LOOK IKE ca a
p. Nj. as he handed it out. The jealous
man tore it open at once, when, 10 and
behold it was the milliner's bill for
EGO. The end.
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In q recent lecture before London
institution, DR.. B. W. Richardson stated
that the work of the heart in healthy
man is equivalent to the feat of raising
5 1-G tons one foot per hour, or 1s5 tons
in twenty-four hours. The use OF eight
ounces Of alcohol causes the hearts work
to show an excess of "a foot tons.
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TEMPERANCE.
A Poem.

Read by Mrs. Samuel Clements, Of Phils-
delphia, at the State Convention of Penn
sylvania w. G. T. u.
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1.-THE merchandise Of souls of men,
Rev. xviii; 12. %. -
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aches, and pains, and sorrows, and losses,
and exasperations, and bereavement, can
get along without sympathizins Christ!
cannot understand it.
But come here to say this morning that
IL you really want divine sympathy you can
have it. There are two or threa passages OF
Scripture that throb with pity and kindness
and love "Cast thy burden on the Lord and
he will sustain thee" "Come unto lie all
We who are weary and heavy laden and
will give you rest" Oh, there are green pas
lures where the Heavenly Shepherd leads tne
sick and wounded of the flock! When all the
other trees of the orchard fail. God has one
tree of fruit for His dear children. Though
the organ walls out requiem, there comes
afterward a song, chant, an anthem, bat
tle.march. a coronation, victory. 10 you
not want the sympathy OF Jesus! oner IL
this morning to every man and woman IN
this house: you need Him. On, no" much
you need Him.
There was a chaplain in the army wounded
unto death While lying there on the field
he heard at great distance Off some one @
CRYING out in great pain: "Oh. my God!"
And hs said to himself: II am dying, but
think, perhaps, could help that man. Al
though I can't walk I'll just roll over 10
where he is.n So he rolled over in his own
blood. and over the bodies Of the slain, ana
rOlleQ Oh uuIll w "hStS sAS
man was dying and put, as it were, MS
wound against that wound, and hls sorrow
against that sorrow and helped to alleviate
it, And so it seems to me that Jesus Christ
hears the groan of odr sorrow, the groan or
our poverty, the groan OF our wreGcn'
edness, and comes to the reliet;
He comes rolling over sin and
sorrow TO the place where we lie
on the battlefield, and He puts over us the
arm Of His everlasting love; and see that
arm and hand are wounded and as He puts
! that arm over us 1 can hear him say: ~ have
| loved thee with an everlasting love" Oh
that YOU might feel this morning the power
! and condolen,e of sympathizing Jesus!
Further, remark: The last great install
ment paid for our redemption was the de-
mise Of Christ. The world has seen many
| dark days. About 11fteen summers ago
there was a very dark day when the sun
was eclipsed. The fowl at monday went to
their perch, and we felt gloom as we
looked at the astronomical wonder. 1t
was a dark day in London when the
plague was at its height, and the dead
with uncovered fares were taken in open
carts. and dumped in the trenches. 1t was
dark day when the earth opened, and LIS
+ bon sank: but the darkest day since the Gre
alton of the world was the day when the
| carnage of Calvary was enacted. 1t was
about noon when the curtain began TO be
| drawn. It was not the coming on OF
night that soothes and rsfrs;hss: N WAS
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The old shoe, hand.lasted, Is doom
cd The tacks that the laster so care
tally drove shall be known no more
The new laster drives no tscks, but
smoothly aud firmly joins sole aud
upper with a cement that never yields,
ard the shoe, when sewed, Is turned
out not only thing OF beauty, but OF
lasting comfort to the Wearer.
Another Improvement In shoe man
ufsc'ure is the cutting of the upper a.
IA single piece Of leather, doing away
with the old-style seam at each side,
aud making the seamless shoe much
neatcr in appearance and moro COM
Portable to the foot.
These two improvements have been
adopted at heavy expense by Mr.. W.
l.. Douglas, of Brockton, Mass, fer
hi, celebrated So shoes, and cannot be
found In any other S3 advertised
shoe. The w. h. Doug as S3 shoe
long ago outstrippcd all competitors,
and Is now more surely than ever
tine best So shoe in the world"
No more tacks in your shoes reader
if ou buy the w. l.. Douglas SO
shoe.
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ficndish No,idoisni.

Sr.LouIs, Nov. % -tIenry Jackson,
Mrs. Jackson and Charles Evans were
arrested this morning aud held to
await action of the coroner in the case
of James Wilson, the 3'year-old son
ofGeorge Wilson, who WAS burned to
death Monday morning. The mother
was attracted TO the bedroom by
screams. aud rushing in beheld the
little fellow ia the bed wrapped in
flames. She snatched him from the
fire, but it was TOO late, ss he soon
died. The three persons under arrest
claim to be youdocs, and as Mrs
Wilson took no stock in their myste-
ries they quarreed and vengeance
was threatened. Tne parties ali live
in the same house, aud it il said that
the prisoners admit they saw lhc he'd
burning some time before lhe alarm
was gwen.